Comment 18 for bug 888665

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote : Re: [Bug 888665] Re: Backports can't build-depend on other backports

On Friday, July 27, 2012 07:53:49 AM Adam Conrad wrote:
> For backports, I agree entirely that ignoring NotAutomatic is just
> lovely, and likely the right thing. I understand that this is also
> being discussed as a solution to turning on NotAutomatic for proposed,
> however.

For backports, dependencies from backports should only be used for building if
the version in -release doesn't satisfy the minimum version requirements (like
Debian Experimental, AIUI).